- it seemed like a good idea at the time
- they seemed funny at the time
- it was Blog of Note and I thought I'd check it out
- somebody recommended it
But later I decide that I don't find it funny, or the content has changed and it's all about sex (and really I don't want to read that) or it wasn't as interesting as I thought; or it's just not 'my thing', or in some cases there are no posts for months and months (Carol you are exempt from that rule!). So occasionally I decide to have a weed out of my list.
Or, since sometimes I can't remember from the title of a blog what it is about, if I've not looked at it for ages, it would be nice to be able to go to that blog as an aide-memoire, and be able to tick 'Un-Follow' in the same way that you tick Follow, on the blog page. (Or can you do that and I've missed it?)
So, invariably I do a couple and then get fed up with how long it takes and go and do something more interesting instead.
I so agree. It took me several attempts to sort out how to do it and then it is sooooooo time consuming. And somehow it seems a very negative thing to do to the people that you have so enthusiastically followed originally.
ReplyDeleteMost of the ones I weed have at least 100 followers so they won't notice ;-)
ReplyDeleteI think we all need to do that at some pt.. I was looking over my list and there are a few that haven't been by for 8 mos..I also feel our taste change..
ReplyDeletei so agree...i tried to weed out some of them last night and got frustrated. Mainly i go after bloggs that haven't posted in months, but it sure is a pain.
ReplyDelete*chuckling* Well......I don't know how it's a moot point for me.
ReplyDeleteDon't tell me how. I'd then be stuck with the same quandry! LOL
I like not knowing some things. :-/
Juniper: Don't phase me out. I love bloging with you!!
ReplyDeleteJJ, it's ok you're not on my hit list ;-)
ReplyDeleteI agree the whole process is time consuming, but I rarely stop following a blog, only really if they delete it or stop posting for months and months.
ReplyDeleteI do try to avoid blogs with hundreds of followers too, because I think they become too big, and their posts tend to be created to entertain the masses.
Wow, I'm pretty new to blogger and didn't realize unfollowing was such a pain. I hope I don't go on any following rampages one night only to regret it the next day.
ReplyDeleteYeah I agree, unfollowing blogs is a pain in the arse and needs to be simpler.
ReplyDeletehttp://theadorkableditzmissteps.blogspot.com/
As soon as I saw the headline to this entry, my first thought was, "Please, not me!"
ReplyDeleteI so hear you, though. I periodically return to my blogroll and the list of blogs I follow (weird...so many ways to keep track of resources on the Web, and none of them really does the job well) and when I do, I'm often troubled by the decision to cut some of the fat out of my follows. For a while, I pasted the URLs of sites I cut into a Google Docs document.
I'm odd like that!
Well I hope you don't put me on your hit list either! I guess I don't really know the pain yet, too new to it all, and what I follow is still all important to me...so far.... it's funny how we have many tastes and each one I follow has their importance...or darling dog attached to it!
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